Alec Holowka, my brother and best friend, passed away this morning.
Alec Holowka, my brother and best friend, has passed away this morning.
Heart Machine also publicly liked and
retweeted individuals who threw Holowka under the bus.
Unfortunately somebody did go through that just recently, and his name was Alec Holowka.
No formal investigation was conducted, no reports were filed,
no police were involved, no evidence against Holowka ever surfaced.
Holowka was unable to fight against his allegations,
though, because they were widespread and propped up by someone protected within the gaming industry… Zoe Quinn.
This kind of outrage-based cancel culture isn't just career-threatening, as outlined in Marks' lawsuit, but it's also life-threatening,
as evidenced in the case involving Alec Holowka.
Just a day later, on August 28th, 2019, Infinite Fall, the indie studio behind
Night In The Woods, fired Alec Holowka and cut all ties with him.
Following the news of Holowka's suicide, Zoe Quinn promptly deleted her Twitter account,
but her second account, Primeape, is still live as of the writing of this article.
Other indie studios and developers also dogpiled and castigated Holowka, including Heart Machine,
a company that hired Zoe Quinn on as a narrative designer for their upcoming game, Solar Ash Kingdom, as reported by Rock, Paper, Shotgun.
After his friends publicly defamed him and
fired him from the company he helped build, Holowka fell back into a deep depression that he had been fighting
and ultimately committed suicide just a couple of days after the allegations spread around Twitter.